By Sarah Otterstrom | Executive Director
Dear Friend,
Thank you for your incredible support for our willow flycatcher habitat conservation and species monitoring efforts. I just wanted to share a happy little story. Last week (Sept 1st), our team was in the northwestern corner of Nicaragua where have one of our long-term SW willow flycatcher monitoring sites. The biologists were busy with the local communities doing garbage cleanups on beaches and nearby wetlands as part of our ongoing education and awareness efforts.
They were surprised to hear a little fitz-bew sound, and given their experience monitoring the WIFLs (abbreviation for willow flycatchers), they knew just what it could be. They pulled out their binoculars and began to look for the little bird.
They found it! Our team observed their first willow flycatcher of the season. What's incredible is to know that there is a greater than 50% chance that this bird is from the endangered southwestern population. The federally endangered southwest willow flycatcher is estimated to have only a couple hundred breeding pairs left (I don't have the precise number handy). Thus, this one little bird is signifcant to this subspecies future. Your support enables us to continue our work with communities in the Cosiguina peninsula through awareness building and work with landowners to maintain willow flycatcher habitat.
Thank you for helping these little birds and welcome back to our wintering little friends!
Sarah
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